About 8 years ago I used to be very into lucid dreaming. I was constantly on forums, and keeping my dream journal and doing reality checks all the time. For the past few years though I have fallen out of it, and only now am starting to want to lucid dream again. Since I have been out of the loop for so long, I'm curious as to what new advancements there have been over the past few years in terms of research, experiments, hardware, or ways to lucid dream easier. I think there are even institutes dedicated to lucid dreaming, so surely there have been some advancements in this area?

I always had a hard time entering lucid dreams, so convince me to start trying again!